NEA Report Finds Teens Are Reading Less for Fun

A report published by the National Endowment for the Arts in November 2007 entitled, To Read or Not To Read, analyzes reading trends for youth and adults, and readers of various education levels. Among the key findings:

Americans are reading less:

• Teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.

• Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.

• On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading

Source: National Endowment for the Arts website http://www.nea.gov/news

Let's get reading....proove them wrong and read for fun over the holiday break! Stop by the library and check out the Books for Fun display.....all of the books can be checked out and many more are avilable in the Fiction section....come by the library and have a look!